COM 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Glossary Of Policy Debate Terms
28 Nov 2016
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Burden of proof/presumption: a burden of proof. When you make a claim, it is your responsibility to have grounds and claims: the burden of proof. Who is responsible: burden of rebuttal. If a claim has been made with grounds and warrants. Then there is a burden for you to response. You have the obligation to give an answer: presumption is the occupied grounds of an argument. Argument that meets the burden of presumption (force) Forms of presumption: presumption of innocence. Asked to believe something that we thought we already knew: presumption against a paradox, presumption in favor of tradition, presumption in favor of existing institutions. You have to show that there is one reason to put this policy in place: need. Affirmative inherency claims (not necessarily that it is not better, but that it can be better) A new policy would yield savings, energy etc. Is the description of the present system that explains why we have this problem: structural.
